Specialist IS Architect – R&D Omics

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Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Specialist IS Architect – R&D Omics

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of software in support of target/biomarker discovery at Amgen.

The IS Architect designs the supporting infrastructure (servers, network, storage, etc.) for scalability, reliability, manageability, performance, and security per solution needs ensuring adherence to enterprise standards and patterns.

Proper design of the infrastructure environment aligned to the needs of the solution promotes stability, scalability, and effective operation of the supported systems. Furthermore, by adhering to enterprise standards, solution delivery is accelerated and cost reduction realized while gaining additional benefits from a known platform that can be maintained and monitored.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop infrastructure reference models, standards, and patterns to guide and govern IS project delivery.

• Develop the enterprise infrastructure target state architecture aligned with Amgen’s strategic goals.

• Develop infrastructure roadmaps detailing initiatives and landmarks to meet the target state architecture.

• Assist with identifying, developing, and leading innovation initiatives including proof-of-concept exploration.

• Participate in architecture reviews to provide governance over the use of infrastructure assets.

• Partner closely with LFA role to drive enterprise adoption of architecture standard processes.

• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The [vital attribute] professional we seek is a [type of person] with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree with 8 - 13 years of experience in IS Architecture, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in biopharma or life sciences.

Must-Have Skills:

• Proven experience in cloud computing (AWS) and cloud architecture (AWS Batch, AWS HealthOmics, AWS PCluster, etc...)

• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (i.e. Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)

• Knowledge of networking, security, and database technologies in a cloud environment.

• Experience with HPC systems

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with job schedulers (like SLURM, PBS), resource management, and system monitoring tools (DynaTrace).

• Ability to troubleshoot common issues with HPC systems

• Solid Understanding of Linux/Unix operating systems (RHEL/Ubuntu)

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and team collaboration skills.

• Proficiency with virtual compute environments (EC2).

• Strong background in AI/ML technologies, with experience in deploying ML models.

• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and data pipelines.

• Certifications in cloud architecture (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, etc.).

• Experience in an Agile development environment.

• Prior work with distributed computing and big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark).

• Operational experience running large scale platforms, including AI/ML platforms and AI

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.